NOTES ON ACTING, an intermittent journal about acting on stage and film, as well as in life.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Visiting the Pluralverse

Here's what you know only a little later in life: choices have long tails. Consequences last, and create further consequences, bad and good. Just as possibilities for real life narrow, you find yourself living evermore with the shades of lives-that-might-have-been, with the multiple possible universes of what might have been proliferating spontaneously from the twin fuels of your imagination and regret. Increasingly, you have one foot in, and one foot out, of the 'here' and 'now,' and you find yourself time traveling, visiting the pluralverse of all your incipient and abortive selves.